<description>&lt;p class="p1"&gt;Public universities are under constant threat of budget cuts, but somehow administrators find millions to toss at extractive tech, like ChatGPT Edu.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="p1"&gt;SF State professor Martha Kenney describes how administrators at the CSUs spent $17 million on a contract with OpenAI without asking students or professors if it was a good idea—subsidizing an industry built on hype and plaigiarism.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="p2"&gt;-&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="p1"&gt;Martha Kenney and Martha Lincoln: "Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence And Austerity In The Neoliberal University"&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="p1"&gt;&lt;a href= "https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/6z5pa_v1"&gt;https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/6z5pa_v1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="p2"&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="p1"&gt;MIT Study&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="p1"&gt; https://mlq.ai/media/quarterly_decks/v0.1_State_of_AI_in_Business_2025_Report.pdf&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="p2"&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="p1"&gt;Library of Babel Listserv&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="p1"&gt; https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/assembly&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="p2"&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="p1"&gt;Episode with Stop AI&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="p1"&gt; https://www.patreon.com/posts/end-agi-before-127632638&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="p2"&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="p1"&gt;Martha Lincoln: "It's Time to Pull the Plug on ChatGPT at Cal State"&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="p1"&gt;&lt;a href= "https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/11/25/chatgpt-poses-risk-student-mental-health-opinion"&gt; https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/11/25/chatgpt-poses-risk-student-mental-health-opinion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="p2"&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="p1"&gt;Martha Lincoln on BlueSky&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="p1"&gt;&lt;a href= "https://bsky.app/profile/heavyredaction.bsky.social"&gt;https://bsky.app/profile/heavyredaction.bsky.social&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="p1"&gt;-&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Sad Francisco is produced by Toshio Meronek and edited by Tyger Ligon. Support the show and get new episodes early on Patreon: &lt;a href= "https://patreon.com/sadfrancisco"&gt;https://patreon.com/sadfrancisco&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="p1"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;</description>

Sad Francisco

Toshio Meronek

AI Force Feeding Frenzy with Martha Kenney

DEC 1, 202561 MIN
Sad Francisco

AI Force Feeding Frenzy with Martha Kenney

DEC 1, 202561 MIN

Description

Public universities are under constant threat of budget cuts, but somehow administrators find millions to toss at extractive tech, like ChatGPT Edu. SF State professor Martha Kenney describes how administrators at the CSUs spent $17 million on a contract with OpenAI without asking students or professors if it was a good idea—subsidizing an industry built on hype and plaigiarism. - Martha Kenney and Martha Lincoln: "Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence And Austerity In The Neoliberal University" https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/6z5pa_v1 MIT Study https://mlq.ai/media/quarterly_decks/v0.1_State_of_AI_in_Business_2025_Report.pdf Library of Babel Listserv https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/assembly Episode with Stop AI https://www.patreon.com/posts/end-agi-before-127632638 Martha Lincoln: "It's Time to Pull the Plug on ChatGPT at Cal State" https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/11/25/chatgpt-poses-risk-student-mental-health-opinion Martha Lincoln on BlueSky https://bsky.app/profile/heavyredaction.bsky.social - Sad Francisco is produced by Toshio Meronek and edited by Tyger Ligon. Support the show and get new episodes early on Patreon: https://patreon.com/sadfrancisco